And for other fans of Mbyes fluffed try, I provide a quick assessment.
You can see that we have stranded most of the knights to our right, so we are heading left.
I thought instead of using Lucy as the decoy, a flat pass would have resulted in a try. He’s looking lonely out there. There’s a better shot of the opportunity down at the bottom of the post in the attachments.
Note Mbye. He’s not even thinking of catching the ball. He’s trying to stay on side before the kick.
Then It goes back to doogie and then he does a sweet thing, he creeps right up to them before he kicks
Sorry about the phone montage, anyway you see what’s happening. Look at Mbye here running to a massive chasm.
Hence:
No one is near him. Perfect kick from doogie.
And then of course is the part of the sequence best left unremembered
There’s a few really nice strings to this bow but also some interesting learnings.
Looking back on it, it’s a worry that Lucy didn’t get the ball and maybe we need to loosen up a bit and play “ what’s in front of us” a bit more.
But if you are Madge, the non-result was the result of a handling error, not the actual theory of the try.
The hero of the movement were the designers, the game awareness to see that they were short and picture perfect 5/8 play from Doogie. That was to the red letter. Spot on.
I could be rude about the knights right side players, there was some blatant tardiness, but to be fair, they didn’t have all the numbers either, so very little room for error which they fell into easily. Fatigue as well I guess.
Couldn’t be bothered making it all pristine presentation wise. Long day...
